Azure Readiness: Check out the Azure Partner Readiness Catalog

Building your skills on Azure is extremely important to not only a fledgling practice, but also to those wishing to stay current. As we have seen an increase in uptake of Azure in the SMB space, our partners sometimes struggle to get the right training they need to quickly learn the ever increasing array of Azure services.

According to his post of last month on the US Partner Learning Blog, Frank Campise, a US Partner Technology Strategist on Azure, the Azure Partner Readiness Catalog was designed to address the challenges partners have “in understanding what Azure resources are available to fit the needs of both your business and the technically-focused individuals in your organization.”

What I find nice about the catalog is that it is not stale. Only current and relevant information is portrayed. Also the searching is first class by either text, Azure feature/service, source, content type, technical level, or even language.

I have found it useful for quickly finding resources to hand off to partners so they can address customer inquiries around topic areas within Azure they are not well acquainted with. Frank further states “It follows a crowdsourced, trusted contributor model to provide you with a current view of the many Azure readiness options available to partners.” I like this approach.